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Gold Guns And James Bond Fantasies: Photos From Inside Gaddafi’s Tripoli Compound

by | 25th, August 2011

PHOTOS of the rebels in inside Colonel Gaddafi’s Tripoli compound reveal something about the despot’s life and living standards. He liked gold. All despots like gold. It’s in The Despot’s Handbook, between “girls” and “guns”. Gaddafi had no golden girl but he did have a golden gun. Like most priapic men, he fancied himself as a James Bond type. Want to look around..?

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Rebel fighters stomp on the head of a statue of Moammar Gadhafi inside his compound in Bab al-Aziziya in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. Hundreds of Libyan rebels stormed Gadhafi's compound Tuesday, charging wildly through the symbolic heart of the crumbling regime as they killed loyalist troops, looted armories and knocked the head off a statue of the besieged dictator. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

 



Posted: 25th, August 2011 | In: Politicians Comment | TrackBack | Permalink